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MAGAZINE GUN. No. 386,669. Patented July 24, 1888.

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ERIK GUSTAF-NICOLAUS SALENIUS, OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

MAGAZlNEfGUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,659, dated July 24., 1888.

Application filed November 9, 1886. Serial No. 218.391.

(No model.) Patented' in England March 1, 1886, No. 2,933, and in Norway March 24,188G,No. G0.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, ERIK GUSTAF NrcoLAUs SALENIUS, a subject of the King of Sweden, and a resident of Stockholm, Sweden, have ininvented certain Improvements in Magazine- Guns, (for which a Brit-ish patent, No. 2,933, dated March 1, 1886, and a Norwegian patent, No. 60, dated March 24, 1886, have been obainedQ of which the following is a specificalon.

This invention relates to a magazine-gun which may also be used without magazines.

Vhen it is used as a magazine-gun,theloading takes place as one continuous operation by loosening the breech-piece and drawing it, with all the parts attached to it, backward parallel with the axis or middle line of the bore, and then pushing it forward again. On drawing back the breech-piece the tiring spring is compressed,thc empty cartridge-case is drawn out of the chamber and thrown away, and a fresh cartridge is taken out of the magazine, situated to the side of the gun and above the axis of the bore. Vhen pushing forward,the cartridge is pushed into the firing-chamber, the mechanism is brought to fulteock and closed, and the gun is ready for firing. The few portions of the breech are made in such a manner that the whole mechanism can be taken apart and put together again without any spanner being needed.

ln the annexed drawings, Figure 1 shows a side view ofa portion of a magazine-gun with the magazine ou top, and Fig. 2 shows aplan of the same. Fig. 3 shows a side view ofthe same port-ion of the gun, the lock, and adjacent parts in vertical section. Fig. 4L is a crosssection on the line4 4in Figs. 1 and 3. Fig. 5 is a side View of the loading nieehanism,the bolt being pulled quite out. Fig. 6 shows the mechanism in longitudinal vertical section when the gun is cocked and ready for iring. Fig.` 7 is a section on the line 7 7 in Figs. 2, 3, and 6. Fig. Sis a side view and a top View ofthe front part of the bolt audits plate, with the carrier, when the bolt is quite pushed in, as in Fig. 6. Fig. 9 shows a side View and a top View of the same parts when the bolt is drawn quite back, as in Fig. 5. Fig. 10 is a cross-section on the line 10 10 in Figs. 5 and 6. Fig. 11 is across-section on the line 1l 11 in Fig. 5. Fig. 12 is a horizontal section on the line 12 12 in Fig. 5.

The gun as far as it is shown in the gures has a iiring-pin with central iire. The invention may, howeveigvbe also applied to rimiriug by placing tbe point of' the firing-pin at the edge of the base of the bolt Ainstead of in the middle.

The breech mechanism is entirely inclosed in a steel casing, A, and consists of the following parts: a, breech piece with knob a and swellings or projections o o; b, breechbolt; c. tiring-spring; (Z, cooking-piece; "e, firing-pin; f, extractor; x', extractor-pin; g, nutfor iiringpin; Zi, trigger-spring; i, trigger-guard; k, trigger; Z, carrier; in, lower part of the breech-casing; p, spring for fixing the magazine, and q magazine.

Theboltbisiirmly united by means ofa downward-projecting part, t, to a plate, r, situated under the carrier Z. This plate has on its up-` perl surlace two angular and oblique notches, s s. Thecarricr,being of a rectangular form, has an elongated and some what oblique opening right through it of a size such that a car tridgecase and even a cartridge that has missed lire can fall through it. On the upper side are two projecting ridges alongside ot' the opening. (See Figs. 4 and 9.) On the under side it has two oblique steps, u a,which tit into the notches s s of the plate ofthe bolt, and also at its ends two swellings or projections, Z2 Z2, which fit into grooves in the casing A and guide the carrier during its movement in and out of the casing.

The outer side of the carrier is shaped ac- .cording to the exterior of the casing, and com; pletely covers the opening in the side of the casing when the carrier is pushed in. The bolt b is connected with the breech-piece a by means of a projection, bf, on the former being passed through an opening, a', into a groove, a, in the latter and turned a quarter of a revolution. (See Fig. 10.) The extractor j' is let into a tiangc, x, of the bolt and secured by means of a pin, The tiring-pin e, which passes through a partition in the breech-piece a, on which is supported the firing-spring c, is pushed with its flattened extremity into a cor- IOO e A @Beerse responding hole in the cooking-piece d, and secured there by means of a nut, g, or inanother manner.

The cooking piece d is provided with a thumb piece, d'2, and moves with its lower portion,which is fn rnished with projecting flanges, in a corresponding groove in the taihpiece z, projecting from the casing A. It has on its under side two notches for full-cock and halfcock, d3 dt.

The peculiarlyshaped trigger-spring 7L is acted upon directly by the trigger. (See Figs. 3 and 6.) It is connected with the tail-piece 'z by means of a dovetail.

When loading the guu,the knob n is turned one-fourth of a revolution 1Jpward and to the left, so as to turn the swellings or projections o and o out of their slots and notches in the sides of the casing, whereby the breech-piece is freed, together with the bolt attached to it. During this movement the projection y on the breech-piece moves along` the oblique groove y in the casing A, (see Figs. 2 and 5,) and causes the breechpiece, with the bolt b and the extractor f, to move slightly backward, whereby the empty cartridge case (or cartridge that has missed fire) is made loose. Simultaneously with this the oblique edge a3 in the breeeh-piece,-Fig. 5, presses against the beveled vertical part d of the cockingpiece d, Figs. ll and 12, and forces it, together with the firing-pin e, attached to it, to move back so far that it comes up on the back edge of the breechpieee. The tiring spring is compressed thereby, and the front point of the firing-pin is pulled back and lies protected in the bolt. If, now, the bolt b be moved back by means of the knob mthe loose cartridge-case comes with it. Vhen the front end of the bolt has reached the rear edge of the opening Z in the carrier Z, which is underneath, Figs. 3, 4, and 9,the empty cartridge case (or cartridge which has missed fire) drops down into the opening of the carrier and is caught by the upper side of the plate 1". On the bolt continuing its retrograde movement the oblique parts of the notches s s in the plate r push the projections u u', and with them the carrier Z, aside and under the magazine q, (the dotted position in Fig. 4,) which is situated on the right side of the gun,whereby at the same time the springs g g2, which retain the cartridges in the magazine, are pushed back. When the carrier has reached this position,the empty cartridge-case` falls out through its own weight anda fresh cartridge falls from the magazine into the top part of the carrier and remains there, because the opening in the latter does not lie exactly vunder the falling cartridge. (See Fig. 5.) O n pushing the bolt forward the carrier, provided with the fresh cartridge, is brought back (by the oblique notches in the plate r) to its original position in the axis or middle line of the gun, whereupon the cartridge is pushed into the firing-chamber by the bolt b, which passes over'the carrier. At the same time the cockng-piece cl stops in front of the trigger-spring h, which catches in full-cock, Fig. 6. On turning down the knob n the swellings 0 0 enter into the grooves eut in the casing and the lower part of the knob moves into its slot in the right side of the casing, at the same time compressing the tiring-spring still more. The gun is now loaded and the firing-spring cocked for firing. During this movement of the bolt when loading, which takes place as one continuous operation, the bolt is guided, partly by the plate r and the part t, against the sides of the casing A,.and partly by the swelling o of the breech-piece c and the lower part of the cocking-piece d, both of which move in the groove in the tail-piece .e of the casing. The thumb-piece d2 serves to bring the gun to half-cock and thence to full -cock. When the magazine is not employed, the advancing carrier is furnished by hand with fresh cartridges.

The under part of the easing and the triggerguardz' are connected to the rest of the easing, and the whole is fastened to the stock in the following manner: Projecting downward from the rear end ot' the tail-shaped extension z ot' the casing are two pins, z', which are connected together at their lower extremities by a bolt or rivet, z2. These pins are inserted in a corresponding hole in the stock, Fig. 3, and the fork-shaped rear end of the trigger-guard is passed upon this bolt z2'. Then the pin m', furnished with a double hook on the lower part, m, of the casing, is inserted through an elongated aperture in the front end of the trigger-guard and the lower part of the casing is turned round,whereby the hooks of the pin m enter into the grooves m2 in the sides of the casing. When the lower part of the casing is turned round ninety degrees, it falls into line with the gun. The double hook is then in the right position, and the pins m3, situated on each side of the front elastic part of the lower casing, enter into corresponding holes on the under side of the casing, and are thus held firmly. In order to be able to operate thelower part ofthe casingm conveniently, its front end is provided with a ring, m4. The barrel is screwed into the front wall ofthe casing. The magazine q, which is made of sheet metal, is provided with two downwardly-projecting pins, q2 q,which are inserted into eorresponding holes in the casing A. A projecting edge of the magazine (see Fig. 4) pushes away a spring, p, on the upper side of the casing, which spring then returns and slides over the said edge, thus holding the lat-ter and the magazine firmly against the upper side of the casing. When the magazine is to be removed, the spring p is moved aside, leaving the magazine free to be taken away. The mode of fixing the magazine to the gun or rearm may, however, be varied. The magazine has only one opening for placing in cartridges, and through the same opening they fall also out at loading when it is placed on the gun with the opening downward. The cartridges are retained by the springs Q g2, the lower ends of ICO which project over the opening'. On moving out the carrier to receive a fresh cartridge the outer side of the former catches hold of the springs q' q2 and pushes them outward, so that the cartridges in the magazine are set free and l fall downward and the undermost upon the carrier. When the carrier is moved in again on advancing the bolt, the cartridge goes with it and the rest are held by the aforementioned springs q g2.

In order to put a cartridge into the magazine, the cartridge is placed on the opening and forced into it, thus pushing aside the ends of the springs. The magazine may be fixed in the same way, even when fixed upon the gun.

As already mentioned, no spanner is needed for taking the different portions of the breech apart and putting them together again.

rIhe mode of operation is as follows: The nut g of the flring-pin is first unscrewed, the bolt bis drawn back, as when loading the gun, and the eocking-piece cl is removed. The lower part, m, of the casing is then removed by taking first the pins m3 in the front part of the same out of their holes and then turning the part m to the right, so that the double hook m in the rear end may be taken out through its hole in the trigger-guard 1J. The carrier Z is next removed, and then the trig gerguard z' and the stock. The breech-piece a is now raised sufficiently to free the swelling or projection o from the groove in z, and is then turned downward to the left, so that the opening a in the breech-piece comes opposite fo the step b on the bolt, thus freeing the breech-piece, which may be drawn oft' the bolt. The firing-pin e and the tiring spring c are then taken out of the bolt and taken apart. The bolt b,with its plate 1*,and the extractorf are removed from underneath. The several parts are put together in the opposite order in which they wele taken apart.

I claim as my inveution--.

1. A breech-loading gun having a barrel, breech-piece, and bolt, in combination with a cartridge-carrier in guides at right angles to the length of the gun and acted on by the bolt to be nioved laterally outward from the casing as the bolt is withdrawn longitudinally and to be returned within the casing as the bolt is moved forward, all substantially as described.

2. A breech -loading gun having a barrel, breech-piece, and bolt, in combination with a carrier in horizontal guides at right angles to the length of the gun and having an oblique opening through it for the admission of the cartridge above and the discharge of the shell below, the said carrier being acted on by the bolt to be moved laterally in or out as the bolt is moved longitudinally in or out, all substantially as described. y

3. A breech-loading gun having a barrel, breech-piece, and bolt, in combination with a carrier in horizontal guides at right angles to the length of the gun and having an oblique opening through it for the admission of the cartridge above and the discharge ofthe shell below, corresponding oblique steps, and grooves on the said bolt and carrier, whereby the latter is moved laterally into or out of the casing as the bolt is moved longitudinally in or out, all substaritially as described.

4. A breech-loading gun having a magazine, barrel, and breech-piece, in combination with a carrier movable laterally in the gun and having an opening throughit for the car tridges from the magazine, and corresponding oblique steps, and grooves on the carrier and bolt, whereby the carrier is moved laterally in or out as the bolt is moved,substantially as set forth.

5. A breech-loading gun having a longitudinally-moving bolt and a cartridge-carrier provided with an opening through it for the admission of the cartridge above and the discharge of the shell below, the said carrier being moved into or out of the breech-casing by the bolt, substantially as described.

6. A breech-loading gun having a longitudinallymoving bolt and cartridge carrier provided with an oblique opening entirely through it for the admission of the cartridge above and the dischargel of the shell below, and with projecting edges at the upper'sides ofthe opening for holding the cartridgcs,sub

stantially as set forth.

7. A breech-1oading gun' having a maga zine.breech-piece, barrel, and longitudinallymoving bolt,the latter having oblique grooves, 10g

in combination with a laterally-movable cartridge-carrier having oblique steps to engage with said oblique grooves, and having an oblique opening for the cartridges, and projecting edges adjacent to said opening on the up- ERIK GUSTAF NICOLAUS SALENIUS.

Witnesses:

AUG. MALMBERG, OrTo NILsoN,

Both of Stockholm. 

